OntoDiSENv1: an Ontology to Support Global Software Development

Abstract


 
 
 Global Software Development (GSD) brought competitive advantages to organizations, but it has also imposed some drawbacks due to the physical distribution. A critical aspect of this approach is related to communication. In order to provide the same semantic understanding about information exchanged on the environment to all team members it is necessary to minimize the ambiguity. This paper presents OntoDiSENv1, application ontology for a distributed software development environment. The goal of this ontology is support communication among geographically dispersed team members. The ontology is integrated to a contextual information dissemination model, which notifies the team members about the actions that occur on the shared workspace and can influence their work. The main contribution of OntoDiSENv1 is to support contextual information representation and processing, providing inference capability and semantic consistency of the information disseminated.
 
 

Improving Coordination and Communication in Distributed Software Development through Context-Based Software Artifacts Awareness: A Controlled Experiment

“…However, DiSEN-CollaborAR approach explores also other challenges such as the combination of traceability links between different types of software artifacts -source code and class diagram. Furthermore, this approach explores the semantic representation of contextual information about the software artifacts by means of an ontology (Chaves et al, (2011). This allows the automatic generation of dependency relationships between software artifacts, according to the structural information and semantic found in own artifacts.…”

Supporting distributed software development through context awareness on software artifacts

“…This model aims to integrate the essential elements to context awareness in order to allow the sharing of contextual information among different workspaces involved in cooperative work. So, this structure includes: (i) Capture Support: it is responsible for recognizing the changes that occur in the context of the artifact and capture the information related to its current context through the events in the Workspace and in the Shared Repository; (ii) Context Representation: it is responsible for receiving contextual information captured on the software artifacts, represent them in a formal model based on an ontology -OntoDiSENv1 [15], and relate them with the other contextual information available in the Context Repository. The context representation for software artifacts is discussed in Section 5.3; (iii) Processing Support: it is responsible for deducting implicit contextual information about captured information on software artifacts based on relationships among the sets of information created by the Context Representation.…”

“…The representation of context can be based on ontology because it presents expressiveness, formalism, inference capacity and support tools are available [15].…”

“…Based on the awareness elements and artifact context, presented earlier, OntoDiSENv1 [15] was extended to focus on the software artifacts and a set of concepts and its relationships have been defined. Then the ontology was formalized using OWL-DL and Protégé 7 .…”

A Survey of Tools for Mapping and Synchronization of Knowledge from Legacy Systems

“…One of the main concerns about contextawareness is the context representation itself. In (Chaves et al, 2011) it is proposed an OWL ontology called OntoDiSEN to specify the context information. Such ontology also specifies a KB for DiSEN since it holds semantic information about the domain.…”